The Long Story

By Kyle Todd & Ben Perry

The backstory here is all about the times in your life that you find yourself in a situation that progressively gets worse until you give up hope that it will ever get better. Suddenly it dawns on you that there’s a perfect solution that you had always overlooked: you can simply leave.

That's where the song begins. There may be some internal debate but you push that aside, and you're full of a calm confidence that the only real option that makes any sense at all is the decision to leave. Then you’ll be free and everything will be good. When you finally take action you’re almost smug with the conviction that you were so clever to figure out that you could just walk away.

That euphoria carries you for a while but over time, nagging doubts start to surface. You begin to second-guess yourself. You become full of conflict, weighing the pros and cons even though it's now too late to go back to what you had, and what you gave up.

The inner debate builds with fragments of arguments repeating until the internal noise reaches a crisis. When it finally dissipates, you're left with a sense of finality and longing for everything that was good that you've now left behind.

Anyway, that's what was going through my head as I put this together.

The Decision To Leave

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